(An interesting for this article is that it’s the fans of this story that have accumulate hundreds of milions of dollars for the drama. So basically, a lot of stuff in this drama will be actually paid by fans.)

Sun Yizhou (Sean Sun) will be playing He Xia, while Gan Ting Ting (Bobo Gan) will be playing as Princess Yaotian.

---I guess this is confirmed. Basically, their previously reported actors were just rumours after all. I did know Huang Jing Yu wasn’t actually going to be in the drama a few weeks ago (this caused great shock amongst the drama community, because everyone was practically 100% certain that he was part of it). But anyway, I’m not too sure about how those two people will play out...

To reflect the geographical contexts, the filming locations will be in Beijing, Inner Mongolia, Xiangshan, Hengdian, Yinchuan, Yunnan.

Gu Fang Bu Zi Shang drama is expected in 2017.

Article #2: The Interview Part 2 (source)

Spoiler:

Quote :

Derivatives are secondary creations, so the original novel author shouldn’t interefere too much.

Interviewer: Do you have any currently ongoing novels?

Feng Nong: Yes. “Jinyu Wangchao” and “Tiaoshui Wangzi Baomihua”. The former is focused on the Republic of China, while the latter focuses on modern diving. But when I write, no matter what the subject is, it’s mainly about the people’s personality and psychological descriptions. That’s why every work probably has a style of its own.

Interviewer: Could you give an example of how personality and psychology moves the plot along.

Feng Nong: In “Gu Fang” for example, the four people were all happy, being simple and naive. However, due to their different personalities, they had different reactions to the bad things that happened to them. From the moment He Xia ditched Bai Pingting, his entire life had been decided, but when Chu Beijie encoutnered the same situation, he tolerated and used his love to solve it. These different reactions then influenced the following plot ideas. To be honest, it’s the same with reality.

Interviewer: Could you tell us a bit about handing the rights of “Gu Fang” to Croton?

Feng Nong: To be honest, the rights for “Gu Fang” had already been sold out four years ago. I’ve only interacted with Croton Media once (lol), last year. Because “Gu Fang” has quite a few sales in Mainland China, they came straight to me. I know that for a good work to come out, effort from a great number of people are needed so after they received the rights, I didn’t insert myself as I didn’t want to cause trouble for everyone. I don’t know anything, so I’d only come along if everyone felt I could be of some help. It’s all to produce a good work.

(---Okay, I found that a bit confusing. In other words, author only met Croton Media once, but sold the rights before that. Author doesn’t meet up with Croton because she doesn’t want to create too much trouble and that she wants to best work possible.)

(---Admittedly, I also skipped a few questions. What a boring interview =_= and the author doesn’t actually know much about the drama at all. Nothing about the story itself either (though some things like how novels are like a mother, and derivatives are its children, are pretty cool). Oh whelp, if anyone’s curious, I’ll translate the rest of it, but if not, no........I’m not gonna waste my time.)

Other stuff:

If anyone wants to see the designs of the main characters, please click on the spoiler button below. This wasn’t done by Xi Xi Guo (the novel artist), but it’s still pretty nonetheless.

Spoiler:

Chu Beijie x Bai Pingting

He Xia x Yaotian

Ze Yin x Yangfeng

Fanlu x Zuiju

Anyway, there wasn't much to say sorry. ;_; Anyone found any more news??